I need a breadboard that fits all the newer microcontroller dev boards that are gigantic like the ESP32 Dev Kit boards or FPGA boards. I also just want more slots sometimes. And every other column should be gray. 👍

cross section of a high power electric car charging cable. the electric current is so high that the copper wires would overheat, but coolant flows through small tubes in the center of each wire.

fun fact! the numbers in coin cell part numbers are dimensions. a CR2025 is 20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick!

with this One Weird Trick, turn a CR2032 into a CR2016

many of you are mourning the Z80 CPU (recently discontinued after a nearly 50 year run). all is not lost--i bet Rochester will take up the torch. as according to the prophecy, Rochester will soon be the last remaining US semiconductor company.

I received a mysterious aerospace computer from the early 1970s, probably for navigation. It is crammed full of flat-pack integrated circuits surrounding a core memory module. Let's take a look inside... 1/17

sometimes they look like this. it's perfectly natural, nothing to be ashamed of.

In the Black Hat Book Store you can find "Open Circuits" - a wonderful No Starch Press book about the internals of various things by Windell H. Oskay @[email protected] (buts psst: they only brought 15 copies, 6 left, two on hold... 😉)

ahh yes, the little known 3M Sandblaster Pro

We didn't.

今年も置いていただきありがとうございます #MFTokyo2024

I am leaving X and have moved over to BlueSky. My user name is CuriousMarc and my handle is curiousmarc.bsky.social (Ken Shirriff and Tube Time on 🟦☁ have moved over there too)